[HN Gopher] "With every good film I see, I feel reborn." ___________________________________________________________________ "With every good film I see, I feel reborn." Author : pizza Score : 51 points Date : 2022-04-17 19:05 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.sabzian.be) (TXT) w3m dump (www.sabzian.be) | pizza wrote: | Context: this is Hossein Sabzian. | | > _Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has | created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the | past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant | work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real- | life event--the arrest of a young man on charges that he | fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen | Makhmalbaf--as the basis for a stunning, multilayered | investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and | existence, in which the real people from the case play | themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative | knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world._ | | https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up | js2 wrote: | Another excellent Iranian filmmaker is Asghar Farhadi. I | thought _A Separation_ was extraordinary. | telesilla wrote: | I simply love this film and so many of Kiarostami. Close-up | wins out in my top 3 because of just how brilliantly he and his | found-actor make use of each other. To perfect ends. | | (Where is the friend's house, and Through the olive trees are | my other favourites, though truly all are fantastic) | srcreigh wrote: | This is on my list now. Sounds similar to one of my favs, | Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation, a movie about himself and his | alter ego struggling to write an adaptation of a book. | everybodyknows wrote: | Title needs "2013". | davesque wrote: | Very relatable quotes from that piece. Here are some others that | follow the quote from the title: It feels as if | I made it myself, as if it were my creation. I | identify with the director. I identify with the | actors. | | Well told stories have incredible power in the human mind. | vmoore wrote: | I have mild ADD and can't read books very well. I read a book | like I read Twitter, extracting little soundbites and quotes out | of it to mull over later. With movies, I get the basic gist of a | story and I'm happy with that. A movie is a watered down book | that I don't have to wade through. Some key movies that I always | loved: Limitless, The Matrix, Fight Club, all of the LOTR movies. | | Those movies moved me in ways a book simply couldn't. And I've | tried reading Tolkien, and just couldn't pay attention. A little | hack I do (since I will never read all the books in the world), | is read the last line of a book I randomly picked up in the | library or a book shop, and commit that line to memory. I've | memorized ~100 'last sentences' of books now! | [deleted] | hzambo wrote: | One little trick that works for me: read and listen at the same | time. | | I love books, I love reading, but my main struggle while | reading was having to go back and read a few pages again and | again when I caught myself lost in random thoughts. Sometimes | it took quite a long time to finish a simple book because of | this. | | Most books today have and audiobook version. So just try both | at the same time. It's less likely you'll get distracted and if | you do, you can just catch up to what you have been listening. | | But most important trick is to read things you like and that | interest you. Don't force on books that aren't interesting just | to say that you finished it. | | I hope this helps. | tonguez wrote: | why would anyone want to know this? | smegsicle wrote: | it's the most active thread on the page yadingus | hirundo wrote: | Audiobook publisher GraphicAudio has cheesy tagline: "A Movie | In Your Mind.". Well yeah, that's where all movies play. But | there is a sense in which an audiobook is more movie than book. | Especially with light reading while doing something else, like | driving or gardening. | | Maybe that loophole will work for your ADD. | srcreigh wrote: | Out of curiosity, how's your visual imaginative abilities? | | The aphantasia test: imagine a person rolling a ball across the | table. | | What color was the person's hair? If it didn't occur to you, | you may have aphantasia. | | (This ability, I assume, is key in reading books. It's like an | ongoing movie in your head if you can do it. I can't.) | bigyikes wrote: | When I was younger, I would always skip over those kinds of | long, windy paragraphs full of visual descriptions. It's like | noise to me. | | I do have a sort of movie playing in my head, but it's not | really a visual or auditory experience. It's more like a | running list of bullet points; a stream of facts. Visual | descriptions are chock full of these facts, but they're all | usually inconsequential to the plot so I tune them out. | | I find aphantasia very strange. I don't lack a mind's eye, | but I do lack the ability to use it while conscious. My | dreams are extremely visual and movie-like, but my conscious | experience isn't really visual at all. It wasn't until | recently that I learned "day dreams" are named that way | because for most people they resemble dreams, but mine don't | at all. | trentgreene wrote: | That's not a good test for aphantasia, and will way over | diagnose. Try googling test for aphantasia for much better | examples | jaynetics wrote: | I agree. I have a vivid imagination (visual and otherwise) | and like reading. When I imagined this scene, it was rich | in detail (colors, textures, lighting etc.), but the | person's hair wasn't a part of it, because I had "zoomed | in" too close to the action. | GordonS wrote: | This test seems imperfect. | | I imagined what you said, but my thought was focused on the | _ball_ , and so the person was "unfocused", or "not as | detailed" - I'm not even sure what gender they were. | | Oh, and I'm colour blind (which is relatively common), so | probably don't think of colours in the same way as others. | schwartzworld wrote: | Sounds like pop science. I did as you asked and didn't | imagine the person's hair, but I can imagine things visually | and have been an avid reader since childhood. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-17 23:00 UTC)